Above The Battle's Front Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JBKB| St Francis Buddha Tolstoi and St John | A |
| Friends if you four as pilgrims hand in hand | B |
| Returned the hate of earth once more to dare | C |
| And walked upon the water and the land | B |
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| If you with words celestial stopped these kings | D |
| For sober conclave ere their battle great | E |
| Would they for one deep instant then discern | F |
| Their crime their heart rot and their fiend's estate | E |
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| If you should float above the battle's front | G |
| Pillars of cloud of fire that does not slay | H |
| Bearing a fifth within your regal train | I |
| The Son of David in his strange array | H |
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| If in his majesty he towered toward Heaven | J |
| Would they have hearts to see or understand | B |
| Nay for he hovers there to night we know | K |
| Thorn crowned above the water and the land | B |
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